Website Thumbnail in Web application

[sharathbvs]

I am working on a web application in ASP.NET 2.0 using C# which requires the website thumnail to be generated in a gridview, the url of the website is got from the database. Any help will be useful.

[Plater]

You want a thumbnail of how the html page will look?
Without being to sure I would say find an html rendering object (possibly the WebBrowser object, but I've had troubled using it in a web-based application) then get at it's graphics object and create a Bitmap object from it, then use the CreateThumbnail() (or it's analog) to generate a thumbnail at the size you desire.

I make no garuntees on that working, but it's a possible thought flow

[sharathbvs]

You want a thumbnail of how the html page will look?
Without being to sure I would say find an html rendering object (possibly the WebBrowser object, but I've had troubled using it in a web-based application) then get at it's graphics object and create a Bitmap object from it, then use the CreateThumbnail() (or it's analog) to generate a thumbnail at the size you desire.

I make no garuntees on that working, but it's a possible thought flow

I tried using Webbrowser object but it throws an exception "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component" on the line Webbrowser.Navitage(url) statement and a blank image is generated.

Any solutions for this?